Island Sanctuary - "Sustainable Sourcing III" Achievement not like the others...

[PotatoTree]

I agree with OP, grind achievements are lazy from the dev. At least up the rewards or something.

I think that:

1. when they design an achievement, at least one dev has to go through the process of completing it. If they didn't have fun then it's not a good achievement. Great achievements should encourage people to change their playstyle, or have a bit of skill to it. Blue mage achievements are nice for example.
2. it shouldn't be so easily bot-able.
3. it should have a better reward at the end
4. going through the main content should contribute to a majority of the completion. ie: if completing island sanctuary you're not 75% towards completing the achievement then the achievement was badly tuned. An example of a badly tuned achievement is the 20k accursed hoard achievement.

[Arohk]

An example of a badly tuned achievement is the 20k accursed hoard achievement.

i doubt anyone will finish that in a lifetime

[PotatoTree]

i doubt anyone will finish that in a lifetime

That particular achievement was extremely strange from the devs. Like only 200-300 people in the entire game have that one and most are from bots. Even players who religiously play deep dungeon with multiple clears on every job don't have that achievement. The only way to complete the achievement is to just redo one of the earlier levels in HoH, leaving if the int buff doesn't proc and your pomanders get saved so you get to retry over and over again for 10 thousand times. Ok sure that's an achievement that encourages a different playstyle I'll give them that, but implemented in the worst way possible.

And then with only 200-300 people at 10k they add a 20k achievement.

Either the devs have no idea how their own game works or this achievement is a honeypot to track who's botting, lol.